Master for Webs

Word lovers delight in the delicious wordplay of parkway and driveway. They gleefully note that we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway. But once you know the stories behind the words, the two terms don’t seem so odd. The early driveway named a road or way along which animals, such as stock or game, were driven. The park in parkway comes from the landscaping (or sometimes the public park) that gives the thoroughfare its touch of green.

English is filled with words that people confuse in unexpected ways -- sometimes ways that even seem downright silly. Need an example? Consider the words nyctalopia and hemeralopia.

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